Tag: NSA

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was wrong to the oppose the reauthorization of the National Security Agency's phone metadata collection program. (AP File)

National Security

Cheney scolds Paul on NSA stance: It’s ‘all politics’

Sean Higgins · June 7, 2015 9:29 pm

Committee Chairman U.S. Rep. Peter King listens during a hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee March 10, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images File)

Rep. King calls Rand Paul’s NSA filibuster ‘shameful and disgusting’

Sean Higgins · June 7, 2015 2:50 pm

Patriot Act author: NSA spying and data mining ‘an abuse of that law’

Barbara Boland · June 3, 2015 9:03 pm

"If you've got the yahoos at the White House who review every document â¦ this is the heart of the backlog," said Rep. Chaffetz.Â

National Security

Lawmakers, reporters slam government secrecy

Sarah Bedford · June 3, 2015 4:01 am

The White House urged the Senate to make sure recently expired key provisions of the Patriot Act are not immobile for long. (AP Photo)

National Security

Senate bucks McConnell, passes House spy bill 67-32

Susan Ferrechio · June 3, 2015 1:39 am

"The determined effort to fulfill campaign promises by the president back in 2008 reflects an inability to adapt to the current threat that we have right now," Mitch McConnell said. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

McConnell takes on Obama after losing spy amendment fight

Susan Ferrechio · June 2, 2015 9:27 pm

Matt Drudge, author of the "Drudge Report." (AP Photo/Khue Bui)

Rand Paul’s partner against the NSA: Matt Drudge

Eddie Scarry · June 2, 2015 6:17 pm

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: The public v. the NSA

Washington Examiner · June 2, 2015 5:00 pm

One of Mitch McConnell's amendments would lengthen a transition period for implementation of the USA Freedom Act surveillance reforms from six months to a full year. (AP Photo)Â

McConnell tests his limits with spy bill amendments

Susan Ferrechio · June 2, 2015 4:01 am

When the USA PATRIOT Act passed that year, no one, including its staunchest supporters, envisioned or discussed a blank-warrant system of indiscriminate government snooping on citizens. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

NSA — Not So Authorized

Washington Examiner · June 2, 2015 4:01 am

Paul's supporters belong to a Facebook group called District of Columbia for Rand Paul, which claims more than 50 members and whose page has over 700 likes. (AP)

Beltway Confidential

An evening with the Paulites of D.C.

Emily Leayman · June 1, 2015 9:58 pm

"In fact, I am thinking about setting up a commission, perhaps headed by Rudy Giuliani, to take a very serious look at this problem," Trump said. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Giuliani: Rand Paul ‘living in Never Never Land’

Eddie Scarry · June 1, 2015 9:37 pm